The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-12
WEST AND SnuTH.

11ilRTI-FIVE business urmS were burned
out at Tampa Fla, on the 4th. Loss, S75,-
600; insurance, 81, 800.
GRANDMA" TYLER, living at Wabash,
Ind, said to be the oldest person in the
Wabash valley, was one hundred years
old on the 4th.
DANIEL DREW in drunken quarrel on
the 4th at Lafayette, Ind, fatally injured
his wife and killed John Mackessey.
THE country surrounding Chicago was
reported on the 4th to be in especial dan
ger from fires. The long continued drought
had reduced building to the dryness of tin.
der and large areas of vegetation were in
not much better condition.
BY the burning of house near Dayton,
O., four persons were suffocated on the
4th.
No STATEMENT, said Justice Craig, of the
Illinois Supreme Court, on the 4th, has
been made to any one in regard to the re-
suit of the case of the Chicago Anarchists
now pending in that court.
ALL the amendments to the State con-
stitution of Texas voted on the 4th were
successful except that in favor of prohibit
ton, which was defeated by nearly $4,000
majority.
WHILE crossing the track Mrs. Mary
Wilson and her two children were struck
by an engine in Chicago on the 4th, and
the children were killed and the mother
fatally injured.
SEVEN men were scalded six fatally, by
the explosion of a beer kettle in Rahrs
brewery at Green Bay, Wis, on the 4th.
SEVERAL vandals gained admittance to
the composing-room of the Indianapolis
Sentinel early on the morning of the 9TH
and pied all the type in the cases and
much matter in the forms.
In consequence of fire in the Calumet
and Hecla mine at Houghton, Mich, a
thousand men were idle on the 5th.
In the southern portion of Carroll Co I'M
ty, Ind, wind and hail-storm on the 5th
ravaged corn fields Trees were leveled
and barns were unroofed.
WLFoRD WOODRUFF, president of the
twelve apostles of the Mormon Church, in
an address issued on the 5th assumes
charge Of the Mormon Church.
A wIND-sToRM on the 9TH demolished the
town of Millbrook, Kan, a place of five
hundred inhabitants But one house in
the town escaped being damaged. A boy
was killed and twenty five other persons
were wounded, none fatally.
FIVE persons lost their lives by the cap
sizing of a pleasure steamer ON the 9Th at
Lake Manawa, Ia
IN and throughout Kansas heavy rains
fell on the 9Th, and farmers were made
glad, as much of the late corn will be
saved.
BY the falling of fifty tons of rock in the
Cascades tunnel being built by the North
ern Pacific railroad at Ellensburg, W. T.,
four men were killed and several injured
on the 5th.
Tryr, Ill Z ~
carrying eighty souls, were reported on
the 9TH as lost in the gulf of California
with all on board.
THE reported trouble among the Mile
Lac Indians in Minnesota was said to be
unfounded, on the 9TH, by the son of the
agent at White Earth reservation.
In Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana thou
sands of acres of land had been burned
over on the 5th. The drought was UMPIRE
cedented. Men were organized as fire
fighters and women were offering prayers
for rain.
THE report that the salmon catch this
year will BE light has been verified, a cam
vas of the canneries on the Colum bia river,
Oregon, showing on the 5th total of 325.
AGO cases, 100000 cases less than last year.
The case of the Cook County (In.)
"boodlers" in Chicago was given to the
jury on the 9Th. All of the defendants
were found guilty, the jury fixing the pun
lshment of Leyden, Ochs, Van Pelt, Was
serman, Varnell, Wren and McClaughry
at two years imprisonment. and imposing
tine OF $1,000 each upon Casselman, Cells,
Mccarthy and Oliver
AT Hastings, Neh., terrific wind-storm
on the 9th dill great damage to outbuild-
ings, shade trees, telephone and telegraph
wires and growing crops
FIERCE prairie fires were raging north
of Hammond, Ind, just over the Indiana
line on the 7th, and much damage had
been done.
GREEN FOSTER stabbed William Fer
guson to dea5 in quarrel ON the 9th at
Nashville, Tenn, over two cents.
FoR the week ended on the 9th the
record of the base ball clubs in the Ma
tional League was as follows: Detroit
fgames wonl, 40; Chicago, 10; Boston, 45;
New York, A; Philadelphia, 40; Washing
ton, 80; Pittsburgh, 20; Indianapolis, %.
MENTOR SMITH, aged ten years, living
near Fulton, No., was arrested ON the 9th
Tor shooting his father, Herson Smith
He said that he was persuaded to do it by
his sister and colored boy, and that his
father did not treat him we'll